Since you provided some data to prove your points, I’ll put mine on the table as well; and since it’s like a CSI, I just use Cancer Science Institute as an example to showcase my point. The citations follow the author, high citation rate perhaps just showed that we are good at attracting these talents over.
Feel free to take a look at the PIs, the research groups and their nationalities, my sources were right, locals who are PhDs don’t even hit 40%, KeeChiu was probably lumping the Research Assistants and Research Officers amongst the ranks.
Look at stinky national academy of sciences.
Most of top academics are stinkies.
Some loser jiuhukias were included maybe due to corruption cronyism or nepotism. And a handful of tiongs or whatever.
Younger gen of stinkies are
fewer in numbers than older gen.
Younger gen of stinkies rather work in easy jobs earning more like in finance & banking. Or easy managerial roles.
Stinkie managers rather cut cost by employing cheap foreign researchers, which is why
today other countries are catching up or surpassing stinkies.
Fellows of SNAS
Prof Louis Chen Hsiao Yun (2011)
Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
“For his fundamental work in developing a method of Poisson approximation”
Prof Chong Chi Tat (2011)
Professor of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
“For his significant contributions to mathematical logic and the general understanding of computability”
Prof Chou Loke Ming (2011)
Professor of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore
“For his contribution to reef management and restoration”
Prof Andy Hor Tzi Sum (2011)
Professor of Chemistry, Hong Kong University
Director, Knowledge Exchange Office, Hong Kong University
Vice President and Pro Vice Chancellor, Hong Kong University
“For his contribution to chemistry education, research and management & services in Singapore”
Prof Lee Soo Ying (2011)
Professor of Chemistry, Nanyang Technological University
“For his contribution to Quantum Chemistry”
Prof Lui Pao Chuen (2011)
Senior Advisor to Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Advisor to National Research Foundation, National University of Singapore & Nanyang Technological University
“For his contributions to defence science program in Singapore and establishing fundamental research framework in Singapore”
Prof Tan Eng Chye (2011)
Professor of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
Provost and Deputy President (Academic Affairs), National University of Singapore
“
For his contribution to representation theory of Lie groups as well as mathematics education.”
Prof Leo Tan Wee Hin (2011)
Professor of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore
Director of Special Projects, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore
“
For his immense contribution to science education and research, environmental protection and nature conservation.”
Prof Andrew Wee Thye Shen (2011)
Professor of Physics, National University of Singapore
“For his contribution to the nanoscience and nanotechnology”
Prof Shen Zuowei (2011)
Professor of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
Dean of Science at the National University of Singapore
“For his pioneering work in multivariate splines, wavelets and frames.”
Prof Bernard Tan (2011)
Professor of Physics, National University of Singapore
Director, Center for Maritime Studies at the National University of Singapore
“For his ardent support of Science and Science Education in Singapore.”
Prof Lim Hock (2014)
Professor of Physics, National University of Singapore
Director (Research governance and enablement), Office of Deputy President (Research and Technology)
"For his contribution to the remote sensing and defense research and his active promotion of Physics Education"
Associate Professor Lim Tit Meng (2014)
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Chief Executive, Science Centre Singapore
"For his outstanding contributions to Science Education and the promotion of science in Singapore."
Prof Ling San (2014)
Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Dean, College of Science at the Nanyang Technological University
"For his outstanding contributions to combinatorial designs, coding theory, cryptography and sequences, and leadership in Science."
Prof Phua Kok Khoo (2014)
Adjunct Professor of Physics at National University of Singapore & Nanyang Technological University
Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanyang Technological University
Chairman of World Scientific Publishing Company
"For his tireless efforts to strengthen scientific research throughout Asia, leadership in promoting international physics education and scholarly exchanges and enriching the world of research and teaching through the many books, manuscripts and journals published by World Scientific Publishing Co."
Prof Sun Yeneng (2014)
Professor of Mathematics
Raffles Professor of Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore.
"For his path-breaking work in mathematical economics by providing a much needed mathematical foundation for modelling a large market with many agents under individual level uncertainty, and for his discovery of a series of surprising results in probability theory and economics."
Prof Zhu Chengbo (2014)
Professor of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore
Head of the Department of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore
"For his contributions to the representation theory of classical groups, in particular for proving the multiplicity one conjectures for smooth representations and conservation conjecture for local theta correspondence."
Emeritus Prof Huang Hsing Hua (2014)
Professor of Chemistry, National University of Singapore (retired)
"For his pioneering work in the development of chemistry in Singapore and Asia Pacific, uplifting the research in the National University of Singapore, and significant contributions in the physical organic chemistry particularly in the areas of molecular conformation."
Prof Hardy Chan (2014)
Professor of Chemistry, National University of Singapore (retired)
Co-Director of Singapore-MIT Alliance. (retired)
"For his long-standing contributions to promotion of chemistry and professional development of chemists in Singapore and significant contributions in the science of conducting polymers.
Prof Sim Keng Yeow (2014)
Professor of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore (retired)
"For his lifelong contribution to the promotion of chemistry in Singapore, selfless leadership in the Department of Chemistry of the National University of Singapore, and significant contributions in the chemistry of natural products."
Prof Bertil Andersson (2016)
President, Nanyang Technological University.
"For his contribution to the rapid transformation of Nanyang Technological University to become the world top university and help to redefine education and research by championing key thrusts in science and engineering."
Prof Ding Jeak Ling (2016)
Professor, National University of Singapore.
"For her outstanding work in innate Immunity & pathogen surveillance strategies and application of research achievements to biotechnology industry."
Prof Lai Choy Heng (2016)
Professor, National University of Singapore.
"For his contributions to particle physics, nonlinear dynamical systems and complex networks."
Prof Lee Hian Kee (2016)
Professor, National University of Singapore.
"For his pivotal role in the development of environmentally-friendly procedures for environmental analysis, in particular the “liquid-phase microextraction” (LPME), a term that he coined that is now part of the modern analytical chemistry lexicon."
Prof Ooi Beng Chin (2016)
Professor, National University of Singapore.
"For his outstanding and pioneering contributions to distributed data management and to the management of spatio-temporal and multimedia data."
Prof Tan Chorh Chuan (2016)
President, National University of Singapore.
"For his pioneering work and leadership in clinical and biomedical sciences in Singapore, as well as leading NUS to further distinction among world class universities."
Prof Jackie Ying (2016)
Executive Director, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
"For her contribution towards the development of advanced nanostructured materials for catalytic and biomaterial applications and for scientific leadership in A*STAR."
Prof Ariff Bongso (2018)
Professor, National University of Singapore
"For his pioneering work in human embryonic stem cell research in the early years of the field and continued innovation and contribution to stem cell biology and the biomedical applications."
Prof Artur Ekert (2018)
Professor, National University of Singapore
Director, Centre for Quantum Technologies
"For his fundamental works in information processing in quantum-mechanical systems and quantum cryptography."
Prof Gan Wee Teck (2018)
Professor, National University of Singapore
"For his resolution of several outstanding problems in the Langlands program and the theory of theta correspondence, and his formulation of and work on the Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture for classical groups."
Prof Birgitte Lane (2018)
Professor, National University of Singapore
Emeritus Professor, University of Dundee
"For her contribution to Singapore biomedical research and research in epithelial biology."
Prof Sir David Lane (2018)
Chief Scientist, Biomedical Research Council
"For his profound contribution to Singapore biomedical research and his work on cancer therapeutics"
Dr Gloria Lim (2018)
Dean of Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore
(retired
)
Commissioner, Public Service Commission
(retired
)
Director, National Institute of Education
(retired
)
"For her significant contributions to Botany and her services to science, education and public service in Singapore."
Prof Loh Teck Peng (2018)
Professor, Nanyang Technological University
"For his contribution in the development of new, environmentally friendly and efficient methods in organic chemistry."
Prof James Tam (2018)
Professor, Nanyang Technological University
"For his scientific scholarship, leadership, and seminal contributions to peptide science and peptide therapeutics."
Prof Wong Tien Yin (2018)
Provost’s Chair Professor, National University of Singapore
Medical Director & Senior Consultant Ophthalmologist, Singapore National Eye Centre
Chairman, Board of Directors, Singapore Eye Research Institute
"For his seminal research on the retinal blood vessels as a unique model to study early cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and the application of that insight to routine clinical practice."
Prof Xu Guo Qin (2018)
Professor, National University of Singapore
"For his mechanistic understanding in molecular binding on semiconductor surfaces, and his leadership in deepening bilateral relationship between China and Singapore through the NUS (Suzhou) Research Institute."
a few tiongs taiwanese hongkie other chinks
nothing too bad.
for example
Beng Chin OOI
Short Bio:
Beng Chin is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, NGS faculty member and Director of
Smart Systems Institute (SSI@NUS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is an adjunct Chang Jiang Professor at Zhejiang University, a visiting Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University, and the director of
NUS AI Innovation and Commercialization Centre at Suzhou, China. He obtained his BSc (1st Class Honors) and PhD from
Monash University, Australia, in 1985 and 1989 respectively. Beng Chin is a fellow of the
ACM 2011,
IEEE 2009, and
Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS) 2016.
Beng Chin's research interests include database systems, distributed and blockchain systems, machine learning and large scale analytics, in the aspects of system architectures, performance issues, security, accuracy and correctness. He works closely with the industry (eg. National University Hospital, Jurong Health, Tan Tok Seng Hospital, Singapore General Hospital, KK Hospital on healthcare analytics and prediabetes prevention, and banks and investment firms on financial analytics), and exploits IT for disruption and innovation in various appplication domains, such as healthcare, finance and smart city. He has
H-index of 77 and citations of 20,000+.
Beng Chin serves as a non-executive and independent director of
ComfortDelgro (listed on SGX), as an advisor of a RegTech company,
Cynopsis Solutions and Huobi for its Huobi Chain, He is a co-founder of
yzBigData(2012) for Big Data Management and analytics, and
Shentilium Technologies(2016) for AI- and data-driven Financial data analytics,
Hangzhou MZH Technologies for Healthcare, and
MediLot Technologies(2018) for blockchain based healthcare data management and analytics. He is a member of
Hangzhou Government AI Development Committee (AI TOP 30) and Suzhou Industry Park AI Development Committee.
Beng Chin was the recipient of
ACM SIGMOD 2009 Contributions award, a co-winner of the
2011 Singapore President's Science Award, the recipient of
2012 IEEE Computer Society Kanai award,
2013 NUS Outstanding Researcher Award,
2014 IEEE TCDE CSEE Impact Award, and 2016
China Computer Federation (CCF) Overseas Outstanding Contributions Award. He was a recipient of VLDB'14 and VLDB'19 Best Paper award.
Beng Chin has served as a PC member for international conferences such as ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, IEEE ICDE, WWW, and SIGKDD, and as Vice PC Chair for ICDE'00,04,06, PC co-Chair for SSD'93 and DASFAA'05, PC Chair for
ACM SIGMOD'07, Core DB PC chair for
VLDB'08, and PC co-Chair for
IEEE ICDE'12, IEEE Big Data'15, BOSS'18 and IEEE ICDE'18. He is serving as a PC co-Chair of Industry track of VLDB'19, BCDL'19 and ACM SoCC'20.
He was an associate editor of VLDB Journal, Springer's Distributed and Parallel Databases and, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)(2009-2012), and Elsevier's founding co-Editor-in-Chief of
Journal of Big Data Research (2013-2015). He is serving as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC) and Communications of ACM (CACM), and the founding editor-in-chief of
ACM Transactions on Data Science (2018 -).
He has served as a co-chair of the
ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Best Thesis Award committee 2008-2011, a trustee of VLDB endowment 2006-2017, as its secretary 2010-2013, and president 2014-2017, and as an Advisory Board Member of ACM SIGMOD, 2012-2017.
Beng Chin has participated in the last three once-every-five-years database self assessement meetings:
Claremont, Berkeley 2008,
Beckman, Irvine 2013,
Seattle 2018.
Research and Systems:
With the ubiquity of Big Data and fusion of applications and technologies, the projects are related in many aspects. Beng Chin approaches research problems and system design with the philosophy that all algorithms and structures should be simple, elegant and yet efficient so that they are implementable, maintainable and scalable in actual applications, and all systems must be efficient, scalable, extensible and easy to use. Beng Chin's ongoing/recent large system projects include:
- Hyperledger++(2015-): He works on benchmarking, andperformance issues of blockchain systems, in particular, on consensus model, execution engine and storage engine. His group designed a comprehensive blockchain benchmarking framework and open source called BLOCKBENCH. Hyperledger++ is the blockchain backend of MediLOT, a healthcare blockchain system, which is patient centric and supports decentralized, personalized medicine and healthcare data analytics.
- ForkBase and ForkCloud (2015-): ForkBase is an efficient tamper-proof data storage system designed to provide efficient support and fast development of forking-enabled applications, such as "GIT-for-Data", tamper-evident Blockchain, collaborative analytics and OLTP with versioning. ForkBase is deployed as the storage engine of Hyperledger++. ForkCloud is a GIT-for-Data system that encapsulates data cleansing, crowdsourcing, ML design and testing, and versioning to facilitate AI development on sensitive data.
- SINGA(2014-): a distributed Deep Learning platform (indirectly funded by an ASTAR grant and NRF CRP). Apache SINGA is an Apache Incubator open source, distributed training platform for deep learning amd machine learning models, and is designed based on four principles, namely, usability, scalability, extensibility and elasticity. Apache SINGA v2.0.0 has AutoML features, a Healthcare model zoo which contains deep learning models that have been used for healthcare research, and facility for porting other models onto SINGA. In 2016, he highlighted the challenges and opportunities of exploiting AI/ML on improving database system usabability and performance in SIGMOD Record 2016.
- GEMINI (2011-): GEMINI is a healthcare AI stack. He works closely with a number of hospitals, understands their needs, and builds an end-to-end data processing and analytics stack. GEMINI end-to-end stack supports data cleansing (DICE), crowdsourcing (CDAS), ML-based predictive analytics (SINGA), cohort analysis (CohAna), and data versioning and management (ForkBase). He works with five hospitals on prediabetes prevention (eg. JurongHealth), and NUH and SGH on various disease specific predictive analytics (eg. DPM, AKI, readmission modelling).
- CIIDAA(2012-2018): a Comprehensive IT Infrastructure for Data-intensive Applications and Analysis is an CRP project funded by NRF (NRF-CRP8-2011-08) from 2013-2017. The main objective is to use cloud computing to address the Big Data problem. For specific applications, this approach has been shown to be effective, and systems such as Hadoop have become very popular. However, they have limitations (seeACM Computing survey paper on MapReduce based systemsand IEEE TKDE Survey on in-memory systems), and are suitable only for a class of applications that have a structure amenable to fine-grain asynchronous parallelization. Furthermore, there remain many challenges in actually using cloud computing systems in practice, including issues of resource contention across multiple jobs being run concurrently. The aim of this project is to develop a platform for supporting real-time data integration and predictive real-time analytics in the area of web consumers (collaborating with Starhub) and healthcare (collaborating with NUH, National University Health System).
- epiC(2009-2013): an Elastic, Power-aware, data-Intensive Cloud platform, funded by an MOE grant (2010-2012). The objectives are to design and implement an efficient multi-tenancy cloud system for supporting high throughout low latency transactions and high performance reliable query processing, with online and interactive analytics capability.memepiC (2014-) is an extension of epiC project focusing on exploiting hardware features, multi-cores and large memory. Related earlier project: UTab.
- LogBase(2012-2016): a distributed log-structured data management system, funded by ASTAR (2013-2016). LogBase adopts log-only storage to handle high append and write load, such as Urban/Sensor information processing. Indexing, transaction management and query processing are the key issues that have been investigated and source codes have released. LogBase is related to an ongoing research on database support for Energy and Environmental Sustainability Solutions for Megacities.
- CDAS(2011-2015): a Crowdsourcing Data Analytics System that has been designed to improve the quality of query results and effectively reduce the processing cost at the same time. It is being built as a crowdsourcing system that provides primitive operators to facilitate composition of crowdsourcing tasks. Other key issues such as privacy and applicability, and various applications are being investigated.
